API Panel.Position.GetBox

<sidebar>API Contents</sidebar> Gets a handle to an object representing the components bounding box position

Parameters

HANDLE Handle

The position or component to read from

The default value for this parameter is: this

Return value

HANDLE

Returns the handle to an object representing the components bounding box position

Detailed description

This call gets the objects bounding box position. This can be thought of as the objects size rather than its raw scale value.

The difference between scale and size only applies to objects with child objects, such as groups or compiled components.

Scale and size of the box

Examples

Calling in a calculation

• Declare a variable 'result' of type HANDLE
• Add to a calculation icon:

  result = ::Panel.Position.GetBox(handle)

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